Renoise is my first tracker 
and my first DAW - and unfortunately, I’ve discovered a secret virus in Renoise. Somehow I can’t figure out how to work in sequencer. I tried Sonar, Reaper, Podium and Ableton and I always shut them down after half an hour with nothing done and saying “I will learn them the other day, I just want to jam some music, let’s go back to Renoise”. With Renoise, I am able to come up with songs immediately. Just pickup samples and put them in the places and don’t bother with some pianoroll stuff and super-sophisticated sequencers and everything being on the most unlogical place. I’d recommend Renoise as a starter DAW for anyone who wants to learn electronic music because you can learn all aspects of audio production in hours (editing, sequencing, samples, effects, plugins) and after that only improve in theoretical areas like synthesis, sound design etc.
I have no idea how the other trackers work, to me it appears that Renoise is the most full-fledged DAW of them.
fruity loops > ableton live > [renoise <> max/msp]
protracker, fasttracker, buzz and then renoise.
Yes, bu you could do wonders with just four tracks and limited resources of Amiga 500. I also started with the first tracker to make some music for the demo scene.
Now after a long time, I started “tracking” again with Renoise and some real instruments. My last song took 40 tracks 
Started with Protracker on MSX (FM Synthesis, no samples), later switched to Moonblaster (MSX). Both programs where quite rudimentary. 
Used some other MSX programs to create music (SME, Meridian,…), but never finished any songs with those. Most trackers relied on using expansion cards which provided FM synths, samplers and/or MIDI. After buying a PC my MSX broke about a year later and I left the scene.
Although I have a licensed version of Renoise for years, I have not done much with it. Too many other distractions nowadays. 
i think my first tracker experience was with DMC 4 on a C64 emulator before i switched to GoatTracker. then i used FamiTracker for a short period of time and switched to MilkyTracker which i still use for my 8bit stuff.
ProTracker on Amiga 500 -> 1200 then Buzz and now Renoise (Buzz is not supported on Win XP anymore)
I used Fasttracker 2 and Madtracker 2 back in the days. Good times 
Band-in-a-box ( c64 ) > Cakewalk ( 486DX4-100 ) > Screamtracker > Fasttracker 2 > Impulse tracker > Cubase > FLstudio > Renoise & Reaper.
Amiga Ultimate Soundtracker,soundtracker,noisetracker,startrekker,protracker,octalyzer,octamed,futurecomposer,digibooster,Radium++ approx 1987-2011 
Renoise,Amiga 2011-2012
But love Renoise, dream is VST support under OS4 and a Renoise port:-)
Noisetracker -> Startrekker -> Protracker -> Fasttracker 2 -> Buzz -> Renoise + Goattracker, started around 1992/1993 and released my first tracks in the Amiga demoscene back in the mid 90s. Back in full affect since 2005 on the C64.
I went from Voyetra sequencer to Master Tracks, to FT2, to IT, to chibitracker and schism concurrently, to Renoise, with Opcode Vision and Cakewalk/Sonar peppered in between somewhere.
impulse buzz modplug axs
Amiga 600 with Protracker then FasterTracker and don’t remember any crash .
MilkyTracker, OpenMPT, Schism, Buzz, Renoise.
hello eveybody, i m new french user since 3 month now and i love renoise, this is my first tracker after trying many sequencer. I do not regret.
sorry for my english.
ps: y’a t’ils des français sur le forum?
In its current forum the market won’t be the same as, say, reason, fruityloops, or protools. But so what? Not everyone has to occupy the same place in the market. In fact, it would probably not go well if they tried to expand and go head to head with PH on their own turf.
As long as it’s a sustainable business model, it’s fine. If you do want renoise’s marketshare to expand, then evangelize renoise to your non-tracker friends.
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Renoise should improve it’s instruments. It’s instruments are on the verge of being good enough to warrant rewire but just not there yet. Look into an old e-mu or ensoniq piece to see how much you can do with so little. Taking this tact, Renoise could sell as a sampler to people who don’t want to use it as their daw.
Don’t say ‘buy kontact’. kontakt is great, but a sampler instrument and a very fancy sample library player are not…,uhm, i mean, this is apples and oranges. An asrx and that nearing on elderly vst rapture are examples of what i am trying to get at. Nearing on godlike in their powers, but usability is considered substandard now of days, maybe? And neither are complete in the way renoise could be.
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Anyway scream tracker, impulse, axs, buzz, modplug. somehow missed the fast tracker boat. Probably mostly got into from working on unreal mods. Then i was like, screw the mods, i just want to RAWk. sorry, team.
it is doing so (check 2.8 against 2.7); it will.
Started out using Jeskola Buzz sometime around 1998, then started using Renoise in 2006 and never looked back.